Deep Living Quotes

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.

For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.